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TOBACCO PIPE. No. 599,433. Patented Feb. 22, 1898.

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"l'OBACCO-MPBPEl SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,433, dated February 22, 1898. `Application tiled May 19, 1897. Serial No. 637,156. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, HENRY WILLIAMSON, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of SS Jermyn street, St. James, London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Pipes and Cigar and Cigarette rlubes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to tobacco-pipes and cigar and cigarette tubes or holders, and has for its object to provide means compactly combined with the smoking appliance, so as practically to form a part thereof, whereby it may be kept continually clean, wholesome, and uninjurious to the smoker and whereby also deposits and moisture may be readily removed whenever required with ease and efficiency.

My invention consists in the provision and co1nbination,with the pipe or tube, of a wound reel, ball, or coil or a loosely-woven fabric or other conveniently-packed store of continuous flexible absorbent filamentsuch as worsted, woolen cord, string, or the like-of the same or varying thickness and in the na ture of an absorber, or it may be a wire with interrupted absorbing material or occasional brushes fixed to it. Such store of cleaning` material (hereinafter for convenience called cord) is so arranged upon or within or in connection with the pipe or tube as to be isolated from the smoke-channel and so kept clean. A length of it, however, is led from the store and always lies in the smoke-channel, having its free end led thereout in such manner that when required to clean the pipe or tube the whole of the fouled and impregnated length can always be easily drawn out, severed, and thrown away, leaving a clean length in its place. There are several ways in which the store of cord may be combined with the pipe or tube, and I will now describe, in reference to the drawings, two preferred arrangements; but it is to be understood l lay claim to the broad combination hereinafter specified.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of a pipe made in three parts, shown separated. Fig. 2 is a section of a cigar holder alternative to the tobacco-bowl. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan of the pipe with the three parts separated. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of same pipe put together. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the reel partly wound with cord, and Fig. 6 is an end view thereof. Fig. '7 is an inverted plan of a simpler form of pipe and storage arrangement. Fig. S is a detail sectional view illustrating the manner of supporting the cord-holder on the bowl portion of the pipe.

Similar letters and numerals refer to similar parts in all the figures.

The appliance shown in Figs. l to 6 is in three partsthe bowl l, or, alternatively, the cigar-holder la, the stem or body 2, and the mouthpiece 3. The smoke-channel of the bowl or holder is enlarged at a to receive the reduced end b of the stem 2, which consists 'of a hollow cylinder or body of wood, vulcanite, or the like closed at its front end and having a central smoke-channel extending through a tube hX, projecting for a suitable distance at t. The mouthpiece 3 has the usual smoke-channel BX, in part adapted to receive the said end b', and its exterior circumference iits into the open end of the stern 2. It has also a passage D, bored or formed longitudinally through the solid material and isolated from the smoke-channel BX, and at the mouth end a curved recess d is formed between passage D and channel BX.

R is the store-reel, consisting of a hollow cylinder or cone provided with end flanges fr r2 and adapted to iit loosely, so as to rotate upon the tube 19X. Upon the reel the cord O is wound, and the free end passes over the reeliian ge rthence through the isolated passage D and recess d, and, following the arrows, along the smokechannel BX,from which it may leave between cavity a and reduced end ZJ, whereat a knife-edged cutting device of any suitable kind may be applied; or in a pipe the cord O may be continued along the smoke-channel and leave the bowl at a hole d', iitted with a plug a2, in which case the pipe might be in one, two, or more parts and arranged as shown dotted in Figs. l and 3. By this construction a length of the absorbent cord O constantly lies in the smoke-channels B BX and takes up all moisture and impurities, and when it is foul or saturated it is only necessary to separate the parts l and 2 or remove they plug a', take the cord C by its clean extremity, draw same forward, thereby unwind- IOO . made in the part b with or without a pluging clean cord from the reel R until all the foul portion is withdrawn, then break off same, or if a cutter is used it will be severed on putting together the parts l and 2. A shallow groove may, if' desired, be provided in the wall of the cavity a or in the circumference of the part b for the cord to lie in, or for the same purpose a separate hole may be stopper, so that the cord may be Withdrawn without separating the parts l and 2.

In the simpler form illustrated in Fig. 7 the pipe is made in two parts l and 3, and the cord C is led from the store ball or coil R along passage D and channel BX, leaving the pipe either between the parts a and b or at a plugged hole a below the bowl l, as above described. The ball or coil R is shown asinclosed in a receptacle R', formed in the material of the bowl beneath same and provided with a lid or screw-cover, the cord issuing from a small hole r and being led to an open end d of the passage D.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a pipe, a cord-holder carried thereby, and a cord extending from said holder and lying in the smoke tube or channel, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a pipe, a cord-holder 4. In combination with a pipe, cigar or cigarette tube, a holder for an absorbent cord carried thereby and a passage or channel D for directing the cord into the smoke tube or channel, substantially as described.

5. In combination with a pipe or the like a separable tube for smokers use, a holder for an absorbent cord carried by the pipe, said l cord being directed through the smoke tube or channel, substantially as described.

6. In combination the bowl, the tube separable therefrom, the cord-holder carried by the tube and the passage extending through the tube for directing the cord through the smoke tube or channel, substantially as described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses,

HENRY VILLIAMSON.

Witnesses:

ALFRED B. CAMPBELL, FRED C. HARRIS. 

